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The QC, Vol. 87, No. 13 • December 7, 2000

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C.I. Drama
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care?
Food Committee proposed by
David Adkins; vegans and
vegetarians complain of the lack
of nutrients ... read more inside.
■ I'll Get Medieval on
Your Choir!
We preview the Madrigal Feaste,
a yearly concert celebration of Christmas. Also enjoy a dose of holiday
gloomfrom advice columnist charles-
victor fr0mme.
■ Most Valuable Player
and Rookie of the Year
We profile fall sports' outstanding
athletes.
WHITTIER ♦ COLLEGE
December 7,2000
John greenleaf ,
Whittier
Quaker Campus
The Voice Of The Campus Since 1914 -»-httn-
http://www.whittiep.edu/qc
COR At-Laige Members Elected for 2001 Term
■ ELECTIONS
by Erin Clark
QC Editor-in-Chief
Junior Kenneth Damborg and
sophomores Erika Gomez, Ted
Leslie and Carrie Stone were elected as the four new Council of
Representatives (COR) At-Large
members in elections held Tuesday, Dec. 5 and Wednesday, Dec.
6. Seven candidates ran for the
four positions.
Damborg decided to run for
At-Large member due to the controversy surrounding COR this
semester, and looks forward to
"giving some of the voice back to
the student body on issues concerning students." Damborg aims
to work on revisions to COR's
budgeting policies, both for clubs
and organizations and for COR
itself. "COR is becoming a pri
vate country club anddoesn' t rep
resent the student body as it was
designed to do," Damborg said. "I
don't feel funding is equally distributed—one club asked for $300
and got $6. That was a slap in the
face." Damborg would like to formulate a means by which COR's
own budget is regulated, and plans
to address the recently implemented COR Code of Conduct, which
he feels silences COR members'
voices. Damborg is a Political Science major and a member of the
International Club.
Gomez would like to increase
student involvement in student
government and increase awareness about campus issues. "A lot
of students don't really care what
goes on when in fact they should,"
she said. "I want to talk to a group
of students that are diverse." Gomez is interested in issues including how COR funds itself and
funding discrepancies. She also
wants to bring more activities to
campus. She is a Physical Education and Recreation major and is
currently involved in the Hispanic Student Association (H.S.A.)
and Movimiento Estudantil Chi-
cano de Aztlan (MEChA), and
served on the Budget Committee
last year. She has also been involved in Program Board and Circle K.
Leslie, a Business and Economics double major and Quaker
Campus (QC) Assistant News
Editor, is interested in working
towards understanding commu-
See AT-LARGE, page 4
Junior Kenneth Damborg. Sophomore Erika Gomez. Sophomore Ted Leslie.
Sophomore Carrie Stone.
COR Forms Election Appeals Board
Beecher Campaign Asks For Hearing Regarding Allegations
QC Issue Allegedly Stolen
■ QUAKER CAMPUS
■ PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTIONS
by Amy Stice
QC News Editor
The Council of Representatives (COR) has agreed to form an
appeals board to officially hear
the allegations of campaign violations filed by former COR Presidential candidate junior Tom
Beecher andhiscampaign. Beecher was disqualified on the final
day of voting on Tuesday, Nov.
21 due to alleged campaign violations. The formation of the board
was the result of an informal proposal made during the Public
Voice section of the COR meeting on Monday, Dec. 4 by sophomore Elizabeth Rohback.
Junior At-Large member Marc
Gonzales insisted that "it's their
right to appeal" and demanded the
formation of an appeals board to
hear his request for candidacy to
run for At-Large member in the
election the next day.
"Am I seriously considering
running as a Member At Large?
Hell yeah. Because I'm tired of
this," Gonzales said. His motion
was denied amid discussion regarding if his motivations were
simply to form a b^rH tn hear
Beecher's allegations or if he was
genuinely interested in holding a
COR office for another term.
Rohback conceded to the Elections Committee that "based on
the information you had, you probably made the right decision" by
disqualifying Beecher, but said
that the COR Elections Committee was not imhhi^^^hb
"It's not going to make
me President or anything, but it's going to
add legitimacy to the
process."
-Tom Beecher
made aware
of the adverse circumstances
Beecher's
campaign
claims surrounded the
election. She
additionally said that she had spoken to both Whittier College President Katherine Haley Will and
Dean of Students Dave Leonard
about the situation. Threatening
to resort to "options outside the
system," she questioned, "Why
would you want to have a president sitting who was basically
appointed? What does that say
about Whittier College?"
Although the COR Constitution's definition of the appeals
board focuses on "prospective candidates," Rohback argued at the
meeting that "it wouldn't be right
to say [to Beecher] that this ave-
mip is hlnr.ke.d now."
Senior Program Board Chair
Joe Cross, senior COR President
Jonathan Collard and junior COR
Secretary Vincent Vigil agreed
that under ordinary circumstances the board would only be formed
for cases in which candidates
would be denied the opportunity
to run for office because of bu-
IHHH reaucratic reasons, such
as failing to attend the
mandatory informational meeting. However,
Cross protested the dismissal of the idea, saying, "We have to take
this."
Student body members at the meeting
voiced concerns about the election process, including an argument from junior QC A&E Editor
James Adomian that, according to
the Constitution, the election is
invalid unless junior COR Presi-
derit-Elect Jeff Cleveland garnered
more than 50 percent of the vote.
Adomian considers such a circumstance unlikely if ballots cast
in favor of Beecher were counted
as blank instead of invalid.
"It's improbable that any candidate would have gotten the majority," Adomian said. "That
makes this a minority president,
See APPEAL, page 6
ISSUE 13 • VOLUME 87
by Ted Leslie
QC Asst. News Editor
Approximately 1,000 newspapers were allegedly stolen from
Quaker Campus (QC) newspaper distribution boxes between 9
p.m. and 11 p.m. on Thursday,
Nov. 30, according to a report
filed with Campus Safety. The
distribution boxes in Deihl Hall
and in the Graham Athletic Center were the only boxes with papers left in them on Friday morning.
Students are allowed to take
up to five issues of the Quaker
Campus, according to a Publications Board bylaw established to
prevent a small number of people
from taking the majority of the
papers.
Despite security cameras in
See QC, page 5
The QC staff posted signs referencing the
newspaper's webpage in distribution boxes after it
was discovered that all of the papers were gone.

Kyoto Protocol
":,'■ Y''«S::f .YYYYY-YY :.,-:::.:-;j.i.-
Mm£
C.I. Drama
Should measures be taken to decrease
global carbon emissions? Should we
care?
Food Committee proposed by
David Adkins; vegans and
vegetarians complain of the lack
of nutrients ... read more inside.
■ I'll Get Medieval on
Your Choir!
We preview the Madrigal Feaste,
a yearly concert celebration of Christmas. Also enjoy a dose of holiday
gloomfrom advice columnist charles-
victor fr0mme.
■ Most Valuable Player
and Rookie of the Year
We profile fall sports' outstanding
athletes.
WHITTIER ♦ COLLEGE
December 7,2000
John greenleaf ,
Whittier
Quaker Campus
The Voice Of The Campus Since 1914 -»-httn-
http://www.whittiep.edu/qc
COR At-Laige Members Elected for 2001 Term
■ ELECTIONS
by Erin Clark
QC Editor-in-Chief
Junior Kenneth Damborg and
sophomores Erika Gomez, Ted
Leslie and Carrie Stone were elected as the four new Council of
Representatives (COR) At-Large
members in elections held Tuesday, Dec. 5 and Wednesday, Dec.
6. Seven candidates ran for the
four positions.
Damborg decided to run for
At-Large member due to the controversy surrounding COR this
semester, and looks forward to
"giving some of the voice back to
the student body on issues concerning students." Damborg aims
to work on revisions to COR's
budgeting policies, both for clubs
and organizations and for COR
itself. "COR is becoming a pri
vate country club anddoesn' t rep
resent the student body as it was
designed to do," Damborg said. "I
don't feel funding is equally distributed—one club asked for $300
and got $6. That was a slap in the
face." Damborg would like to formulate a means by which COR's
own budget is regulated, and plans
to address the recently implemented COR Code of Conduct, which
he feels silences COR members'
voices. Damborg is a Political Science major and a member of the
International Club.
Gomez would like to increase
student involvement in student
government and increase awareness about campus issues. "A lot
of students don't really care what
goes on when in fact they should,"
she said. "I want to talk to a group
of students that are diverse." Gomez is interested in issues including how COR funds itself and
funding discrepancies. She also
wants to bring more activities to
campus. She is a Physical Education and Recreation major and is
currently involved in the Hispanic Student Association (H.S.A.)
and Movimiento Estudantil Chi-
cano de Aztlan (MEChA), and
served on the Budget Committee
last year. She has also been involved in Program Board and Circle K.
Leslie, a Business and Economics double major and Quaker
Campus (QC) Assistant News
Editor, is interested in working
towards understanding commu-
See AT-LARGE, page 4
Junior Kenneth Damborg. Sophomore Erika Gomez. Sophomore Ted Leslie.
Sophomore Carrie Stone.
COR Forms Election Appeals Board
Beecher Campaign Asks For Hearing Regarding Allegations
QC Issue Allegedly Stolen
■ QUAKER CAMPUS
■ PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTIONS
by Amy Stice
QC News Editor
The Council of Representatives (COR) has agreed to form an
appeals board to officially hear
the allegations of campaign violations filed by former COR Presidential candidate junior Tom
Beecher andhiscampaign. Beecher was disqualified on the final
day of voting on Tuesday, Nov.
21 due to alleged campaign violations. The formation of the board
was the result of an informal proposal made during the Public
Voice section of the COR meeting on Monday, Dec. 4 by sophomore Elizabeth Rohback.
Junior At-Large member Marc
Gonzales insisted that "it's their
right to appeal" and demanded the
formation of an appeals board to
hear his request for candidacy to
run for At-Large member in the
election the next day.
"Am I seriously considering
running as a Member At Large?
Hell yeah. Because I'm tired of
this," Gonzales said. His motion
was denied amid discussion regarding if his motivations were
simply to form a b^rH tn hear
Beecher's allegations or if he was
genuinely interested in holding a
COR office for another term.
Rohback conceded to the Elections Committee that "based on
the information you had, you probably made the right decision" by
disqualifying Beecher, but said
that the COR Elections Committee was not imhhi^^^hb
"It's not going to make
me President or anything, but it's going to
add legitimacy to the
process."
-Tom Beecher
made aware
of the adverse circumstances
Beecher's
campaign
claims surrounded the
election. She
additionally said that she had spoken to both Whittier College President Katherine Haley Will and
Dean of Students Dave Leonard
about the situation. Threatening
to resort to "options outside the
system," she questioned, "Why
would you want to have a president sitting who was basically
appointed? What does that say
about Whittier College?"
Although the COR Constitution's definition of the appeals
board focuses on "prospective candidates," Rohback argued at the
meeting that "it wouldn't be right
to say [to Beecher] that this ave-
mip is hlnr.ke.d now."
Senior Program Board Chair
Joe Cross, senior COR President
Jonathan Collard and junior COR
Secretary Vincent Vigil agreed
that under ordinary circumstances the board would only be formed
for cases in which candidates
would be denied the opportunity
to run for office because of bu-
IHHH reaucratic reasons, such
as failing to attend the
mandatory informational meeting. However,
Cross protested the dismissal of the idea, saying, "We have to take
this."
Student body members at the meeting
voiced concerns about the election process, including an argument from junior QC A&E Editor
James Adomian that, according to
the Constitution, the election is
invalid unless junior COR Presi-
derit-Elect Jeff Cleveland garnered
more than 50 percent of the vote.
Adomian considers such a circumstance unlikely if ballots cast
in favor of Beecher were counted
as blank instead of invalid.
"It's improbable that any candidate would have gotten the majority," Adomian said. "That
makes this a minority president,
See APPEAL, page 6
ISSUE 13 • VOLUME 87
by Ted Leslie
QC Asst. News Editor
Approximately 1,000 newspapers were allegedly stolen from
Quaker Campus (QC) newspaper distribution boxes between 9
p.m. and 11 p.m. on Thursday,
Nov. 30, according to a report
filed with Campus Safety. The
distribution boxes in Deihl Hall
and in the Graham Athletic Center were the only boxes with papers left in them on Friday morning.
Students are allowed to take
up to five issues of the Quaker
Campus, according to a Publications Board bylaw established to
prevent a small number of people
from taking the majority of the
papers.
Despite security cameras in
See QC, page 5
The QC staff posted signs referencing the
newspaper's webpage in distribution boxes after it
was discovered that all of the papers were gone.